Book madness : a story of book collectors in America

Resource Information

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Label

Book madness : a story of book collectors in America

Title remainder

a story of book collectors in America

Statement of responsibility

Denise Gigante

Creator

• Gigante, Denise, 1965-

Author

• Gigante, Denise, 1965-

Subject

• Book collecting -- United States -- History
• Book collectors -- United States
• Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 -- Library

Language

eng

Summary

The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends-caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America-booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen-Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country's major public, university, and society libraries

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

002.0750973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

Z987.5.U6

LC item number

G54 2022

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography